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Scandal is what one half of the world takes pleasure inventing, and the other half in believing.
Scandal is what one half of the world takes pleasure inventing, and the other half in believing.
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality
He rams his quill with scandal and with scoff,
But 'tis so very foul, it won't go off.
He rams his quill with scandal and with scoff,
But 'tis so very foul, it won't go off.
Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.
Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.
And there's a lust in man no charm can tame
Of loudly publishing our neighbour's shame;
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And there's a lust in man no charm can tame
Of loudly publishing our neighbour's shame;
On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly,
While virtuous actions are but borne to die.
Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.
Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.
Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality.
Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality.
The mightier man, the mightier is the thing
That makes him honored or begets him hate;
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The mightier man, the mightier is the thing
That makes him honored or begets him hate;
For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.
And though you duck them ne'er so long,
Not one salt drop e'er wets their tongue;
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And though you duck them ne'er so long,
Not one salt drop e'er wets their tongue;
On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly,
While virtuous actions are but borne to die.